Sean Bean reveals his favourite death scene

Sean Bean has died so many times on screen that choosing a favourite must be like picking a favourite child.

He's been beheaded (RIP Ned), dismembered by two horses (RIP Ulrich), impaled on an anchor (RIP Sean Miller) and plummeted hundreds of feet to his doom (RIP Alec Trevelyan, twice), but nothing compares to arrows apparently.

Talking to EW, Sean has confirmed that Boromir's death in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, when he takes a bunch of arrows to the chest, remains his stand-out death.

"It's my favourite death scene, and I've done a few," he explained. "You couldn't ask for a more heroic death."

Remind yourself of Boromir's glorious demise below:

Director Peter Jackson was going to use CG arrows, but went for a more old-fashioned approach that saw Sean mime getting shot while wearing a metal breastplate under his clothes filled with arrows.

And if any aspiring actor wants to know just how to die the right way, who better to ask than Sean? "You can't show off. You can't be vain or posing... Because every time you die, it's a big f**king moment."

The man knows. After all, someone went as far as creating a montage of death scenes back in 2011.

Since then, Sean has only gone and survived in the likes of Jupiter Ascending and The Martian, so some director better be planning to kill him off again soon.